9/11/LEGISLATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump walked into the Rose Garden on Monday [7-29-19] and signed into law a bill that would permanently fund the care of emergency workers who became ill after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He also revived an old claim that he spent time at ground zero alongside firefighters and police officers. Mr. Trump has a long history of making questionable and provocative statements about what he saw on the day of the attacks and how he reacted, some critical of Muslims. On Monday, surrounded by emergency medical workers who had lost colleagues and friends in the attacks, Mr. Trump sought again to place himself near the center of the recovery effort. WHAT TRUMP SAID: ‘Many of those affected were firefighters, police officers and other first responders. And I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first responder. But I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you.’ This is exaggerated.”
–Katie Rogers, “Fact-Checking Trump’s Claim He ‘Spent a Lot of Time’ With 9/11 Responders,” The New York Times online, July 29, 2019